gdp's Comments

http://chantcafe.com/ : The aggressors in the "liturgy wars"

Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:05:59 +0000

The leftism she is referring to is primarily liturgical, not political. Inwood is noted for hostility to the EF. I'm not aware of any political statements in the usual sense by him which I'll grant is a wise move on his part. Take same-sex "marriage" for instance. If he were to come out in favor of it, he would (hopefully) lose his church jobs. If he came out against it, then he would likely lose a lot of support of the people who prefer his mawkish ditties.

http://chantcafe.com/ : The aggressors in the "liturgy wars"

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:44:19 +0000

to call for an end to this war or that war, the culture war, the liturgy war, the translation war Indeed. If you are that committed to peace, then capitulate. No? Then clearly you think the stakes are worth fighting for, just like the people on the other side of the issue. Funny how that works, isn't it? Case in point: the supposedly fair-handed John You-knuckle-dragging-Taliban-Catholics-need-to-be-more-charitable Allen. He weighed the new translation war against the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and gee whizz how out of whack our priorities are. He might have actually had a point if not for the fact that he and the birdcage-liner he worked for were decidedly on the "What if we just said 'Wait'?" side (Translation: What if we just said "Never!") Well, if the new translation was that unimportant, then just let it pass so that we can get to the important stuff. But Noooooooo.

http://chantcafe.com/ : Monday Morning Funnies

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:03:12 +0000

You may have seen this before, but just case: https://youtu.be/MP8tTXKzObc

http://chantcafe.com/ : Inquiry Regarding a Capital Idea

Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:12:06 +0000

The problem with that is that the original Greek manuscripts also didn't use spaces between words or punctuation. Somehow I don't think many of the don't-capitalize-pronouns are going to advocate that.

http://chantcafe.com/ : Flashback Friday

Tue, 1 Nov 2016 10:36:41 +0000

Anyonr who thinks it was all perfect prior to V2 None of the regulars here seriously thinks that, so why cavil? Moreover, that the piece was not used in liturgy is also a petty objection because no one can seriously deny that it is from the same doofiness propelling trends in liturgical music.

http://chantcafe.com/ : Church Marketing 101

Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:42:10 +0000

Ha! The problem of course is that yoga, sushi, etc. are trendy and easy. The Faith will never be trendy or easy in our present atmosphere of kultursmog.

http://chantcafe.com/ : Turning Towards the Lord--and Against Clericalism

Fri, 8 Jul 2016 11:54:11 +0000

"Getting rid of the "group hug" approach will do much to restore the Mass" I believe the proper liturgical term is The Pew Lunge of Peace. :)

http://chantcafe.com/ : The New Minorities

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:27:22 +0000

You are doing just fine Kathy with this post. Keep up the good work.

http://chantcafe.com/ : \"Welcome to our Church.\"

Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:22:45 +0000

Greeters are merely a symptom of a disease in which important things external to the Mass are lacking elsewhere in the parish and thus are crammed into Mass time whether it is conducive to proper worship of God or not. Mass as kitchen sink as it were. Much of it is due to lack of genuine community. So when Catholics never see each other outside of Mass except maybe at football games (assuming Catholics can afford the heavy tuition of a Catholic school), we sadly see the last 15 minutes of Mass turned into a Town Hall meeting as birthdays, marriage anniversaries, etc. are applauded (I've even seen a cake with lit candles rolled down the aisle), or a layperson doing some kind of missionary work gives a schpeel which always seems to include illicit and windy sermonizing. So while I have resigned that we will have greeters, I think most people instinctively detect something is amiss and that it is a tawdry solution to a greater problem.

http://chantcafe.com/ : Let\'s Revisit \"Praise and Worship Music is Praise But Not Worship\"

Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:07:59 +0000

I think you will find traditionally-minded music directors are open to testing ALL music proposed for liturgy in the refining fire. Perhaps Mozart and Palestrina actually do need the boot, but Mozart and Palestrina are hardly a ubiquitous phenomena reducing sacrifice and worship to trivial mush the way P&W is, are they?

http://chantcafe.com/ : A Plea to Bishops and Pastors

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:34:03 +0000

I agree chant needs to be restored as most of what passes for AmChurch music is trivializing mush that, coupled with a liturgy and manners that obscure the Real Presence and turn the whole into a secular therapeutic excercise, renders the faithful morally feeble. But as far as it being a means to win a culture war, I am reminded of last week's Gospel reading where the Apostle's are in a boat with Our Lord in a storm. Faithful praying with chant is simply the right thing to do. Whether Our Lord muzzles the evil storm of perversion currently smashing the boat is up to Him and on His schedule, not us and on ours.

http://chantcafe.com/ : An Extraordinary Parish Mass

Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:21:24 +0000

Modernity has turned liturgy into a political football in a game faithful Catholics would have never chosen, but now must play to win.

http://chantcafe.com/ : The Golden Record in Interstellar Space - What\'s Missing?

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 03:49:13 +0000

Liberal fantasy not unlike the film "2012" in which every religious person is wiped from the planet (except a Tibet monk, because, you know, Westerners are under the delusion that Buddhism is Politically Correct on any given subject). This and Carl Sagan's record are almost pornographic.

http://chantcafe.com/ : Is P&W Music \"More Than a Feeling?\"

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:04:59 +0000

I am not talking about liturgical music. Yeah, but you are what you eat; and if one lives on a constant diet of what is essentially the music of secular therapeutic culture with lyrics that daub a thin veneer of Christianity on it, the soul starves.

http://chantcafe.com/ : Is the Reform of the Reform Dead?

Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:58:15 +0000

Pius XII would not agree with you. Neither would JPII-- Ecclesia De Eucharista: "…48. Like the woman who anointed Jesus in Bethany, the Church has feared no “extravagance”, devoting the best of her resources to expressing her wonder and adoration before the unsurpassable gift of the Eucharist."

http://chantcafe.com/ : A Case for Gospel Music

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:59:07 +0000

Good comment David. You should paste it at Msgr. Pope's entry.

http://chantcafe.com/ : As Exciting as Vatican II!!

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:36:26 +0000

Isn't this similar to the "'God, I thank you, that I am not like these [insert people you don't care for]" that Pope Francis is trying to get away from? In any case, Ecce! Water is still wet and the pope is still Catholic: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/church-dumps-re...

http://chantcafe.com/ : An overly ecstatic ode to Jeff Ostrowski, Corpus Christi Watershed, and the Campion Missal

Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:54:53 +0000

Now that's what I call a good review. :) Love my Campion and take it to adoration so that I can read and absorb the readings for next Sunday. I'm also happy I got the 1st edition before they ditched the awesome cover art. I understand the switch, but the 1st edition is a great conversation starter ("Ooo what's this?").

http://chantcafe.com/ : Rules? Nope.

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:24:48 +0000

True. I remember arguing with someone about LifeTeen liturgical music suggestions. She was trying to tell me that LT didn't have a musical style. So I went online to their site and pulled up one of their suggested liturgy programs. Sure enough, in addition to the multi-media nonsense they recommended, the song list was twenty P&W/CCM titles and one hymn that could be considered remotely traditional.

http://chantcafe.com/ : Rules? Nope.

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:05:21 +0000

I use the "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" approach. That is, sit a kid down and ask him to listen to a piece of music sans lyrics and then have him indicate in which setting it is appropriate. I contend he will get it right almost every time. Rock music belongs in a dance club, Sousa belongs in a parade, Mariachi music belongs in Mexico (or at least a place with a Mexican theme), etc. The usual GIA Catholic McDitties he will put just about anywhere but a Church (Nursery room, summer camp, merry-go-round, etc.) I'll never forget when a traditional chant was played on the radio and my four-year-old, who had never heard chant in a liturgical setting, said, "That sounds like church." Foolishness is often a learned habit.